What is Global Day of Parents?

Global Day of Parents is a observance that is celebrated each year to honor parents and their commitment to children worldwide. Parents play an important part in shaping one's life.

Parental figures receive the recognition for the important role they play in their children's lives on Parents' Day. The day aims to promote responsible parenting and to recognising positive parental role models. It celebrates the special bonds of love between parental figures and their children.

When is Global Day of Parents celebrated?

Thursday, 1 June

Activities:

• Hosting morning tea for the parents during drop off to show their hard work is appreciated.
• Organise an activity day where the children can share and participate in with their parents/guardian in their favourite activities.
• Group time: Discussing different types of families and different type of guardians and parent figures; i.e. stepmum, parent's who adopt etc
• Create a family tree encouraging children to bring in a family photo to add to the tree.
• Creating cards and little memorable gifts for the children to give their families. 

What does the Australia's Biggest Morning Tea celebrate?

Australia's Biggest Morning Tea is Cancer Council Australia's event which is the most popular fundraising and the largest. Australia's Biggest Morning Tea brings many communities, local schools and childcare centres together to help raise funds to help beat cancer!

All dollars raised through this great cause helps fund Cancer Council's life-saving research, prevention, support programs, and information.

When is Australia's Biggest Morning Tea?

Thursday, 25 May

Activities:

• Setting up your Australia's Biggest Morning Tea stand at the front of your service and parents can by morning tea during drop offs (with reminders of social distancing)
• Hosting a raffle (involving your community to donate vouchers and families to donate items to create hampers)
• Sending a direct link to all families to donate to your registered account to help raise for the good cause
• Children to to the service wearing yellow and donate a gold coin.
• Auctioning Children's Art & Crafts/

Click the following link to register your service and particiapte in helping the community raise funds for one of the largest fundraising events in Australia! 
https://www.biggestmorningtea.com.au/register/biggest-morning-tea-2021/member

What is National Simultaneous Storytime?

National Simultaneous Storytime is an event that take part in Australian Libraries across the country each year. On this day a book illustrated and written by an Australian author and illustrator is read a many libraries, schools and early education centres across the country.

This day aims to:

• Promote reading and literacy
• Promote the importanace and fun of books
• Promote and appreciate Australian authors and illustrators

When National Simultaneous Storytime?

Wednesday, 24 May

National Simultaneous Storytime 2022:

The Speedy Sloth (written by Rebecca Young, and illustrated by Heath McKenzie)

"It was finally time for the event of the year, Spike couldn’t believe it—THE GREAT RACE was here! The other sloths said it couldn’t be done, but Spike didn’t care, she was ready to run!"

Click the following link to order your copy today: https://shop.scholastic.com.au/Product/100102482

To obtain further information, please visit: https://www.alia.org.au/nss 

What is National Reconciliation Week?

National Reconciliation Week was began in 1996 by Reconciliation Australia to celebrate Indigenous culture and history in Australia. 

National Reconciliation Week is a focused week where Australians learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories, share that knowledge and help us grow as a nation. Early Childhood engage in many National Reconciliation Week through various intentional teaching and invite their families and community to be involved to share stories or family values. 

When is National Reconciliation Week?

From 27th May to 3 June we celebrate National Reconciliation Week.

Activities:

• Children to identify the Aboriginal flag from a small selection
• Children to identify the Aboriginal flag from a small selection
• Group: Learning about the Indigenous culture and history
• Combine the children together - preschooler with a walking toodler and allow them to explore that outdoor playground with images, icons, flags etc of the Indigenous culture whilst playing appropriate music during the walk— there are many great songs about reconciliation. Ideal to start and end the the walk with the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.
• Incursion performance play for children to participate and learn through visual, dance, stories and much more about the Indigenous culture and history
• Reading related stories about Reconciliation week. 
• Set out resources in rooms allows the children to explore and learn about the culture. 

What is National Sorry Day?

National Sorry Day is an annual event celebrates each year in Australia since 1998, to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the country's Indigenous peoples, as part of an ongoing process of reconciliation between the Indigenous peoples and the settler population

When is National Sorry Day?

Friday, 26 May

Activities:

• Decorate the hand templates with colours and pictures that represent Sorry Day.
  • Cut out the hand templates ready to build the artwork.
  • Cut a circle out of yellow paper or cardboard. Write the word “sorry” in the centre.
  • Fan the decorated hands out around the yellow circle to create a Sorry Day Sun.
• Group Activites: disucssing and reading stories about the "Stolen Generation Stories"|
  Stories: “Stolen Girl” by Trina Saffioti & Norma MacDonald
• Incursions: Learning about the Ingenious and stolen generation 
• Patiricipate in a Sorry Day flag raising